CommonCore State Standard
Content Area: Career and Education Development
Grade Level: 9-diploma
Domain: Self-Knowledge and Self-Concept
Standard: A1
Students reflect on and/or analyze interests, skills, habits of mind, and experiences to maintain a positive self-concept and to aid them in making career and life decisions.
a. School-to-school decisions.
b. School-to-work decisions.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
personal interests and skills create and support self-image
these interests and skills can be changed at any time.
career choices are effected by self image.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
how do personal interests and skills support self-image?
would I like to change my skills and interests?
what effects career choices and why?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to:(S)
•vocabulary: personality, self-concept, perspective, efficacy
•important events: relevant aspects (economic, political, social, individual) from chosen era in US history
•character details: work skills, soft skills, aptitude, short-term goal, long-term goal.
U1 (Interpret) tell a story about an experience that describes self-image
U1 (Self-Knowledge) recognize personal interests and skills.
U2( Explain) express positive and negative aspects of the current situation.
U2 (Apply) propose a strategy for attaining the goal
U3 (Perspective) criticize the benefits and barriers of the particular self-image
U3 (Empathy) role play the imagined new perspective.
Stage 1 Identify Desired Results
Content Area: Career and Education Development
Grade Level: 9-diploma
Domain: Self-Knowledge and Self-Concept
Standard: A1
Students reflect on and/or analyze interests, skills, habits of mind, and experiences to maintain a positive self-concept and to aid them in making career and life decisions.
a. School-to-school decisions.
b. School-to-work decisions.
What understandings are desired?
What essential questions will be considered?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
•important events: relevant aspects (economic, political, social, individual) from chosen era in US history
•character details: work skills, soft skills, aptitude, short-term goal, long-term goal.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe